SALE OF PURE BRED STOCK.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 765, 12 May 1877, Page 2

SALE OF PURE BRED STOCK.

Wis . take from the "Lyttleton Times," of Saturday week last the following particulars respecting the sale of Mr Griffiths' thoroughbred . ; stock : at Spreydon. The attendance waa very numerous, comprising all the breeders of note in Canterbury and other parts of New Zealand. The sires did not come up in price to the expectation of either the owner or the public. Albany was the first offered, and was started at 400 guineas. The bids advanced till 500. was reached, when he knocked down to Mr Nosworthy. Blue Boy next came out, and Mr Delemaiu secured him for 150 guineas. When Traducer came iuto the ring he was greeted with three cheers from the spectators as the king of New Zealand sires, and Mr Newton, afcer recounting to the audience the names of all the winuers of whom he was the sire, asked them to bid freely for him, as he would be knocked down to the highest bidder, Mr Griffiths having instructed him to dispose of the horse without the slightest reserve. The first offer was 500 guineas, and was gradually risen fifty guineas at a bid 'until 750 attained, when there waa a long panse. After about a quarter of an hour's breathing time, fifty more was bid, and the graad horse was knocked down to the Middle Park Company. Of the imported English mares, Maria Theresa was first put up, and was the nicest mare oi the lot. She was started at 200 guineas, and gradually went up to 500 guineas, when the hammer fell to tbe Middle Park Company's bid. Hammock, mare, of a fine color, fell to the Middle Park Qompauy's bid of 325. Aurifera was the last of the English thoroughbred mares Mr Newton had to submit. She is a very nice mare, and is by Diophantus, the fastest mile horse ever known in England, and combines the blood of Orville, Orlando, Emilius, and St Peter. For this mare there was not much competition, and Mr Nosworthy, after bid cling well for all the mares, secured this for 275 guiueas. All these mares are stinted to Traducer. Among those of the colonial-bred mares that fetched a high price may be mentioned Ethelreda, the dam of Nectar and Bribery; now in her 18th year, who fetched 110 guineas, going to tho stable of Mr P Richardson. Twitter, also a colonial-bred mare with Eng-

isb. pedigree, fetched 160 guineas, Mr Stead being the purchaser. The foals out of the English mares bj Traducer, were sold at a rery pay•ino* price, the first being a .filly out of Idalia, She was secured 'by Mr Lance for 100. The next was a filly foal out of Aurifera by Traducer, which Mr Mallock got fcr the same money. The filly foal out of Maria Theresa was the 7 best of the whole lot, and after ) some spirited bidding fell to ! Mr ilanoe's hid of i 300 guineas.. The bidding for the, two-year-old filly Tell Tatle, by. Traducer out of Brunette, who 1 tan third for the Champagne Stakes at the Autumn Meeting,'.was menced at 100.guineas,, and she eventually went,tp Mr, Kpsworfchy for the sum of 300 guineas. !